Michael Leiter
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Michael E. Leiter is currently the Principal Deputy Director of the United States National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). [1] Prior to joining NCTC, Mr. Leiter served as the Deputy Chief of Staff for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). In this role, Mr. Leiter assisted in the establishment of the ODNI and coordinated all internal and external operations for the ODNI, to include relationships with the White House, the Departments of Defense, State, Justice, and Homeland Security, the Central Intelligence Agency, and Congress. He was also involved in the development of national intelligence centers, including NCTC and the National Counterproliferation Center, and their integration into the larger Intelligence Community. In addition, he served as an intelligence and policy advisor to the DNI and PDDNI.
Before his service with the ODNI, Mr. Leiter served as the Deputy General Counsel and Assistant Director of the President’s Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction (the “Robb-Silberman Commission”). While with the Robb-Silberman Commission, Mr. Leiter focused on reforms of the U.S. Intelligence Community, in particular the development of what is now the National Security Branch of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. From 2002 until 2005, he served with the Department of Justice as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. At the Justice Department, Mr. Leiter prosecuted a wide variety of federal crimes, including narcotics offenses, organized crime and racketeering, capital murder, and money laundering.
Immediately prior to his Justice Department service, Mr. Leiter served as a law clerk to Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer of the Supreme Court of the United States, and to Chief Judge Michael Boudin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. From 1991 until 1997, he served as a Naval Flight Officer flying EA-6B Prowlers in the U.S. Navy, participating in U.S., NATO, and UN operations in the former Yugoslavia and Iraq. Mr. Leiter also served as a Harvard Law School human rights fellow with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.
Mr. Leiter received his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he graduated magna cum laude and was the 113th President of the Harvard Law Review, and his B.A. from Columbia University. [2]
[edit] External links
- NCTC Bio - Mr. Michael E. Leiter
- NCTC News Story on Appointment of Michael Leiter and retirement of Kevin Brock
- NCTC Website
- WMD Staff
- Office of the Director of National Intelligence Website
- News about new NCTC on FBI website
- BBC News article with internal photograph
[edit] References
- NCTC Principal Deputy Bio. Retrieved on 2007-02-22.
- Harvard University Gazette. Retrieved on 2007-02-04.
Preceded by John Scott Redd |
Acting Director of the National Counterterrorism Center 2007 - Present |
Succeeded by Incumbent |